Peer2Peer Finance News December 2018

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FUNDING CIRCLE’S GLOBAL EXPANSION PLANS

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The platform has a shortlist of overseas markets IFISA SPECIAL REPORT

The evolution of the game-changing tax wrapper

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Octopus Choice’s Sam HandfieldJones on advisers, tech and talent >>

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ISSUE 27 | DECEMBER 2018

SME finance aggregator quits Bank Referral Scheme ONE OF the first business finance aggregators to take part in the Bank Referral Scheme has quietly left the government initiative. Sources close to the Treasury have told Peer2Peer Finance News that Business Finance Compared left the scheme in spring 2018, and while the departure was amicable there was some frustration in the department due to the efforts that had been made to onboard the platform. >> 4 It is thought that

RateSetter dips toe into Open Banking RATESETTER is trialling several partners to help it tap into the opportunities presented by Open Banking. Michael Hoare, head of credit at the ‘big three’ peer-to-peer lender, said that the platform is working with “a couple of different” parties, as it looks to utilise Open Banking for application assessments and lending decisions.

“We are starting to dabble in Open Banking,” Hoare told Peer2Peer Finance News. “You can’t just jump into it though. We will make a decision on our partner in the new year.” Hoare said he expected more firms to develop products and services using Open Banking once aggregators such as MoneySupermarket begin to adopt the data-sharing initiative.

This would then feed into the products and platforms that users select through comparison websites, he added. A number of P2P lenders have already started using Open Banking, which mandates banks to share anonymised customer data with approved third parties. Uptake has increased in recent months, as more

application programming interfaces (APIs) have become available, making it easier to access data held by banks. P2P consumer lenders Lending Works and Zopa are already using Open Banking, in order to automate the credit application process and verify income respectively. Additionally, business P2P lender Growth Street >> 4 has launched an


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Peer2Peer Finance News December 2018 by Alternative Credit Investor - Issuu